2015年上海中考英语首字母系列2

D．Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入恰当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：（共14分）

Many teenagers have problems that worry them. Some do not learn their school subjects well. Some are good at learning and do well in exams, but they are doing so poorly in sports ?bookworms?. So many teenagers suffer from stress（压力）. Firstly, eating a diet, getting enough sleep and doing exercises are very important. How can we be happy if we are not fit? and planning when to do them can help students organize their time. If you are weak in a subject, the things they are good.

Then students should also make enough time for their hobbies. Playing sports, reading and Finally, it is suitable for teenagers to share their problems with their friends and parents.

D) Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词,使内容通顺, 每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14分)

We all like getting into gossip（闲聊）.Studies

s__92___ that gossiping releases（释放）our emotions and

reduce tension（紧张）.

Research has proved that in the USA, gossiping can

make people more democratic(民主，平等). It is a way of

free expression. While gossiping, people communicate with

a free mind.

Gossiping h__93____ us shift（转移）our interest to others. When we gossip, we seldom discuss our own problems. We generally discuss another person who is not present. Doing so, we laugh away our own cares. Sometimes we feel sorry for a person involved in a particular problem. And we also come up with solutions to his problems. More happiness flows into our lives when we help and guide a person we are t__94___ about.

But, be aware of the dangerous side of gossiping! Gossiping can be harmful if you h__95___ others on purpose. When you start speaking i__96____ of someone, you start criticizing others for nothing. When you gossip with an ill-will, it makes you tense. Tension naturally comes to you when you try to make others tense.

Why do people talk badly about each other? People pass bad remarks about others simply out of hatred﹙憎恨), fear, envy（妒忌）, and greed. The person making insulting（侮辱性的） remarks thinks his listener will keep the talk a s__97____, but gossiping travels faster than the wind! And still faster when the gossiping is bad!

We all gossip at one time or another. After gossiping, people feel l__98____ and relaxed. But purely bad gossiping makes us tense and envious of others.

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D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）:（14分）

A nurse took a tired soldier to the bed. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to the old man?s eyes opened.

The old man dimly (模糊地) saw a young man in a Marine Corps uniform standing beside the bed. He reached out his hand. The soldier took it. The nurse brought a chair so that the soldier could sit by the bed.

all through the night, the young man sat there in the ward (病房), holding the old man?s hand and offering him words of love and encouragement.

Sometimes, the nurse suggested that the young man move away and rest a while, but he oblivious (遗忘的) of her and of the night noises of the hospital.

holding tightly to his son?s hand all through the night.

Early in the morning, the old man died. The soldier went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy (同情), but the soldier stopped her. “That?. Who was that man?” he asked.

“He was your father,” she answered.

“No, he wasn?t,” the soldier replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”

“Then why didn?t you say something when I took you to him?”

“his son just wasn?t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, and that how much he needed me, I stayed.”

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）:（14分）

More and more Japanese teenagers read novels on mobile phones（手

机）, n___92____ on the paper.

The phone novels are usually written by first-time writers—usually in

their tens or twenties. Several novels have been turned into real books. Love

Sky, a story a____93____ a boy with cancer, has sold more than 1.3 million

books and has been made into a f____94_____.

Many of the phone novels are influenced by comic(漫画) books because

comic books are very popular in Japan. So phone novels are heavy in dialogue and have r____95____ short paragraphs. Large empty spaces between sentences are used to mean that the characters are thinking.

A mobile phone novel website, Maho i-Land which started several years ago, now has six million members and a million novels on the site.

However, some t____96_____ writers are angry about phone novels. They c____97____ that phone novels are short of scene(缺少情景) and character development.

Koichiro Tomioka, a professor at Kanto Gakuin University, said it was a new w____98____ for writers to become known.

He said, “It?s interesting. The problem is: can this new type of writer keep on writing books as a professional writer?”

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D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，

使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）

Americans think that travel is good for people. Some even think it can help one of the country’s worst problem—crime. (犯罪)

of crimes goes up and up. They often come from sad homes, with only one parent or no parents at all. There are problems with drugs. (毒品)

There are many young criminals (罪犯) in prison. But prison doesn’t change them--60 to crime when they come out of prison.

One man, Bob Burton, thought of a new idea. In the old days, young men had to live a hard life on the road. They learned to be strong and brave, and to help their friends in time . So Bob started “Vision Quest” (幻想探究).

He takes young criminals on a long, long with horses and wagons (马车) 3,000 miles through 7 states. They are on the road for more than one year.

time in prison. This is their last chance.

It’s hard work on the road. The day starts before the sun comes up. The boys and the they can love their horses. That love can help them to start a new life.

Not all young people in Vision Quest will leave crime behind them. 30 or 40 percent will . But that’s a lot better than 60 or 70 percent. Bob is right. Travel can be good for them.

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的

词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）

Let me tell you a story. One of my good friends lives with six hundred animals on the Greek there is a lot all around it. Ever since he left school, he has travelled all over the world collecting animals for his zoo. He hoped to collect at least two examples of every sort of animals on his island. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful animals that he collects. The money from his books helps him to for all the food that these animals eat. My friend told me that money for his travels, and for his zoo, and a little oil can buy enough water for a long time, but he knows that if he tells of his zoo and his life?s work. So I think he will you and me about what he found — because oil and water can?t be trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so?

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D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的

词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：（14分）

Obamas’ $1 Allowance（零花钱）: How Much Do You Pay Your Kids?

Many children in America try to find the jobs in their holidays to earn their pocket money,

including President Obama?s daughters Sasha and Malia. Obama gives his seven and ten-year-old daughters just a dollar a week each for the jobs they do. They help to do housework such as setting their play areas and bedrooms.

to give children allowances in this way. But most

of the American parents believe that everyone in the family should be responsible for the housework. The people who agree with this point say that kids shouldn?t just get allowances for of their money management skills. Most of the children in America are allowed to spend their allowances on the things they like. Many people think that kids can start receiving

allowances around ages 4 or 5, when children start to understand how money in life.

in these

tough economic times (经济困难时期). One way here can help the parents to make the decision: write down how much you spend on your child daily for two weeks and set an based on (基于) the average daily expenses. Then you will get the answer.

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words

Many people use the Internet to get useful knowledge and facts, and to relax themselves. But

and have fun on the Internet.

Make rules for the Internet use with your parents. For example, when and how long you can

go online, and what activities you can do online.

Don?t give your password to anyone else, and never give out the following i 93 : your

real name, home address, age, school, phone number, etc.

Check with your parents before giving out a credit (信用) card number.

Never send a photo of yourself to anyone in an e-mail u 94 your parents say it?s OK. Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules

and attract different kinds of people. You and your parents must make sure it?s a place for chatting.

Never agree to meet someone you meet on the Internet your parents?

permission (允许.

Always remember that people online may not be the people they say they are. Treat (视为)

everyone online as if they were strangers.

parents or your teachers at once.

Treat other people as you?d like to be treated. Never use bad language.

Remember---not everything you read on the Internet is true.

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D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：（14分）

Everyday Millan puts on his running shoes and takes a four-hour

and old. Most of those

dogs belong to him. The rest are at the heart of his work, they are

troublesome dogs sent to Millan to learn good manners.

Millan, star of the TV show Dog Whisperer and author of the

best-selling book Cesar’s Way, has a special gift for working with

these animals.

Growing up on a farm, Millan knew he wanted to work with dogs. His first job, at the age 15, was helping a veterinarian(兽医). He was so good at letting dogs quiet and handling all kinds of him “the dog boy”. Since then, he has built a rewarding job around his favorite animal.

“to work against nature,” he explains. In nature, dogs like to stay in a group and follow one leader. Millan?s specialty is teaching people to be leaders for their dogs.

Studying dogs on the farm where he grew up, Millan realized they need lots of exercise to stay quiet. He explains his way: “” he says that a lot of people get it backwards because they don?t need. Therefore, while he trains dogs, he teaches owners to understand that their pets need rules.

To find the right job, Millan kids to do what they enjoy. “A lot of people don?t realize I?ve worked with dogs for more than 20 years---long before my TV show or book. Success of being the best dog trainer in the world.”

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的

词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）:（14分）

My old friend, Harrison, a British gentleman, was a retired banker. Harrison had worked and to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned in July than he bought a house and went began to complain about the weather, for even though it was still ,once the most sunshiny days of this period with his schoolmates playing outside during their holidays, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold.

the sunshine in the Mediterranean, Harrison got a shock. lived in England before. In the end, Harrison had to admit that had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream of my poor friend had had for so many years ended there.

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